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Car Coupling. I N0. 80,026. Patented July 14, 1868.

N. FFI'ERS, FhohrLithogmpher, Washington, D. C.

D. M. S'IE'W'ARD, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

Letters Patent No. 80,026, dated July 14, 1868.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, D. M. STEWARD, of Dayton, in the county ofMontgomery, and in the State of Ohio, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Car-Couplings; and do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exaet description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in the. manner of coupling cars bymeans of aT-shaped pin, the tongue of which falls into a slotted bar,thus doing away with the necessity of using springs or anything elsethat might'be affected by the weather.

I In order to enable others to make andiuse my invention, I will nowproceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to theannexed drawings, which form a part of this specification, and inwhieh-- Figure 1 is a side'view, and

Figure 2 a transverse section.

A Atrepresent the coupling-boxes, B a slotted bar attached to the insidethereof, the slot on said bar forming the coupling-chamber.

The T-shapedpin O is hung by its arms in the eye-holts a a, under theupper side of the coupling-box, and so arranged that its tongue fallsdown, in, and through the slot on the bar 13, and against the inner sideof the entrance to the coupling-chamber, as shown in fig. 1.

One of the arms of saidpin is provided with a handle, D, fastenedthereto, by which means the cars can he uncoupled, as, by faising thehandle, which can be done by means of cords passing up through staplesor pulleys to the car, the tongue of the pin will be raised out of theslot, and the coupling-ring E taken o t,

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The pin C, with handle D, fastened by,the eye-bolts a a, in combinationwith the slotted bar 13, which forms the coupling-chamber, allconstructed and arranged substantially as described and for the purposesspecified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand,this 23d dayof May, 1868.

D. M. STEWARD.

Witnesses:

DENIS REGAN, W. H. SIGMAN.

